The Save Prentice Coalition wants you to Show Prentice Some Love this Valentine’s Day! Enter the on-line contest to let the world know how much you love Bertrand Goldberg’s 1975 Prentice Women’s Hospital. Your “valentine” to Prentice can take any form you like: photos, drawings, t-shirt graphics, songs, 60-second videos, haiku, tattoos, and construction paper hearts are all welcome. Entries are due by 5 pm on Monday, February 13th. The top 5 entries will be posted at www.saveprentice.org on Valentine’s Day for a public vote. The winners of the popular vote will receive fabulous and rare Goldberg-themed prizes.

Join Docomomo US and openhousenewyork for a scavenger hunt across Manhattan and beyond. Spend a day exploring the city and taking photographs in front of examples of modern architecture and design for a chance to win great prizes! Hunt alone or as a team and learn about the historical buildings, spaces and the architects and designers that made major contributions to the cityscape. The hunt starting point and event opening will take place at Room & Board in SoHo at 11:00am.

Modernism Week is an exciting 11-day celebration of mid-century modern design, architecture, and culture in Palm Springs, California. This design aesthetic originated in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, and was typified by clean, simple lines which came to define desert modernism. Modernism Week is filled with a variety of events including architectural tours, films, lectures, an architectural symposium, educational events, and chic, fun parties in cool mid-century modern homes.

For a complete listing of tours and events and to purchase tickets, visit the program website.

Docomomo US and World Monuments Fund invite you to a presentation entitled, Materials and Surfaces of the Tugendhat House: Investigation and Preservation of Authenticity.

By DR. IVO HAMMER, conservator, art historian, chairman of the Tugendhat House International Committee.

Monday, January 23, 2012
6:00P.M.
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
hosted by

Czech Center New York
at Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street
between First and Second Avenues

Registration is now open for the upcoming Hawaii Modernism Symposium. Join Historic Hawai‘i Foundation for presentations, discussion and celebration of Hawaii’s significant architecture, planning and engineering achievements from the middle of the 20th century.  The event entitled: “Hawai‘i Modernism: a Symposium on Identification, Evaluation and Preservation of Our Recent Past” will be held Saturday, January 21, 2012, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the East West Center in Honolulu.

New Orleans architect Arthur Q. Davis passed away on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 at Ochsner Baptist Medical Center. A graduate of Tulane University's School of Architecture and a World War II veteran, Davis studied with Walter Gropius and apprenticed in Eero Saarinen's Michigan office.

As interest in architecture of the twentieth century grows, Docomomo US continues to be at the forefront of the modern architecture preservation movement. For almost two decades, Docomomo US has been the resource for the advancement of public understanding of modern architecture and landscape and the promotion of advocacy on its behalf.

On a busy stretch of midtown Manhattan, a somewhat unknown and unloved modern building has quietly been demolished. The Donnell Library (1955), a modest piece of design nestled among the likes of Philip Johnson, Edward Durell Stone and Yoshio Taniguchi, stood on the south side of West 53rd Street and was designed by Edgar I. Williams and Aymar Embury II. One would not generally use the term ‘handsome’ or ‘elegant’ to describe the Donnell library, especially when comparing it to its high profile neighbors, but the library’s architecture was a unique hybrid, a sort of transitional form of modernism.

DOCOMOMO Ukraine in association with Kharkov National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, “RodDom” Institute and DOCOMOMO International request papers in association with the International Conference on Ukrainian Architectural Avant-Garde - Studies and Protection, Kharkov, February 1-3, 2012.

The aim of the conference is to concentrate efforts of architects, scientists, cultural community, state and local authorities of the Ukraine on the studies and protection, of the remaining architectural heritage, and of the turbulent twentieth century.

The program will include plenary sessions, presentations and tours on

On Tuesday, November 15th, join Docomomo US/NY Tri-State for an evening with Hicks Stone as he presents his new book, Edward Durell Stone: A Son's Untold Story of a Legendary Architect (Rizzoli). Hicks Stone, Edward Durell Stone's youngest son, himself a practicing architect, documents the breadth of his father's life and career. A unique and at times honest depiction of his father, Hicks presents an authoritative biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century architecture.